Fish and Fast Times – Nic Flicks

I finally saw Rumble Fish. I had never seen it, but always figured I would someday. Being a huge fan of Francis Ford Coppola, I felt it was time to get this one off the list. First off, let me say that visually it is amazing. Nearly every freakin’ scene in the film looks like a photograph. It is by far his most artsy film. I thought the clock motif was a bit overdone, but for the most part, I got into the offbeat hipness of it. The dialogue is a bit weird at times, but I am told that it is nearly word for word from the novel by S. E. Hinton.

The real amazing thing about this film is the story itself – what seemed at the time to be just a fun story was amazingly complex and hard-hitting drama. I mean look at the issues it deals with – teenage promiscuity, loyalty, drugs, abortion, and on and on… Cameron Crowe put together one heck of a story.

RATING 8 out of 10

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From his early days as a teenage serial entrepreneur to the present, Chris Doelle has always been riding the wave of cutting edge technology. Chris has focused on emerging media, along the way created a very successful venture in commercial video production, and has been an early force in the new media revolution. Old school thinking has never been in his vocabulary.
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